Typographical machine.



Patented Dec, 11. 1917,

SHEETSSHEET I- 0. PETRl-PALMEDO; TYPOGRAPHICAL MACHINE. APBLICATION FILED AUG.30. l9l5- I MIIIIRF I lizvc D. PETRI-PALMEDO.' TYPOGRAPHICAL MACHINE. APPLICATION HLEnAumso. l9l5.

Patented. Dec. 11,1917.

2 SHEETSSHEET 2.

DAVID PETRI-IALMEDO, OF BBIDGEPORT,GONNECTICUT,ASSIGNOB 110 ELECTRIC COM- POST-E013; COMPANY, NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

'rYroenArHIcAL Macrame.

To all whomz'tmay concern:

Be it known that 1, DAVID Pn'rRI-PALMnDo, a citizen of the United States, residing at Bridgeport, in the county of F airfield and State of Connecticut, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Typographical Machines, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to circulating matrix typographic machines, and particularly to machines of this kind which contain a plurality of magazines, from any one of which matrices may be assembled at will; and which also containsdistributing mecha nism for automatically returning said matrices to the proper channels of-themagazines in which they severally belong.

It has long been customary to provide single'magazine circulating matrix typographic machines with a holder for sorts matrices, located conveniently for the dperator; and with means whereby to cause the automatic delivery to said holder of any sorts matrices used in matrix lines. It might be here explained that sorts matrices arematrices having characters which are so seldom required in a matrix linethat the magazines are not formed with channels for containing. them, and which therefore will not be delivered into any magazine channel by the distributer. Nevertheless, such sorts matrices are not infrequently required in a line. The sorts holders heretofore used have been receptacles in which the sorts matrices are arranged in haphazard order, but so exposed that the operator may readily see and locate the one he wants to use, and may easily remove it from the holder and insert it at the proper point in a matrix line which is being assembled.

If, however, one should put into .a multiple magazine typographic machine, a single sorts holder and the mechanism for returning sorts matrices thereto, such as has served for a single magazine machine, the sorts matrices of different styles or faces would soon become so mixed, .up that much of the operators time would be wasted in seeking, through the mixed mass of sorts matrices, to discover one of the particular face or style required.

It is the primary object of this invention to provide means for making it easy for the operator to quickly find and get hold of the sorts matrixv of thepartieular face required.

I Specification of Letters Patent. p te mam 11 1mm Application filed August 30,1315. Serial No. 47,963.

To this end the invention involves the use ofa plurality of sorts holders, preferably one for each magazine, and a plurality of tubes or conductors which severally discharge into these sorts holders, and which are so arranged at their receiving ends that the distributing mechanism may deliver each sorts matrix into that tube which is associated with that sorts holder designed to hold them.

In the accompanying drawing, the invention is shown in the preferred form, and by way of example, as applied to a typographic machine having plural magazines supported on a swinging frame, and associated distributing mechanism substantially as shown and described in the application filed by David Petri-Palmedo and Edward F. Goddard, October 16th, 1913, Serial No. 7 95,398; and the accompanying drawing shows only so muchofthe machineof said prior application as is necessary to disclose in what manner the present invention may be applied thereto.

In the drawing, Figure 1 is a front elevation of the left side of the swinging magazine frame, the magazine supported thereby, and of the lower part of the distributing mechanism, with the present invention applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a sectional side elevation of the corresponding parts, the section being in the plane indicated by lines 2-2 on Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a side elevation from the left side of the mechanism shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 4: is a sectional view taken on line 4-4 of Fig. 2.

The parts shown of the particular machine to which, by preference, this invention is applied, and for which the invention in the particular form shown is designed, are as follows: y

A magazine supporting frame 10 is pivotally connected at its upper end to fixed frame work 12 of the machine, so that said frame may be swung forward and back wardby suitable mechanism (as for ex ample, the rotatable pinion 13 and the rack segment 14 on said swinging frame), to bring any one of the four magazines 15 which said frame supports, into operative relation with the matrix releasing mechanism.

On this swinging frame, above the magazines, is the magazine determining part of the distributer; and above that mounted on for distribution by said k I a fixed frame member 16 is the character determining part; of the distributer. The; drawing shows the lower left hand-corner of and some of the determining" channels 23?, 23", 23 and 23 thereon, and som of the switches 24 in said channels;

Q The sorts matrices "(one is shown in" Fig. 2) arjeshaped like the matrices adapted distributing mcchag nism into the Various channels of the several" magazines, and, likethem; they are formed" with characteristically differentiated holes m for" c'oiiperating With the distributingmechanism as shown in said prior applicatlon. The holes are dlsposed upon said sorts matrices in such Wisfe a'sto' cause the switches 22 in: thcflcliaractcr' determining part of the distribu'ter to swing to the right} so that they guide all of the sorts matricesinto the extreme left channel 21, from whi h they will-fall into the left hand receiviiigth'roat' ofthe magazine determining-i part of sa-id distributer, that is, the part 1 thereof Whichis" mounted on the swinging frame; 7

' Alsothefholeson thesematrices are placed so: that caclii one will cause such movement of the switches of the lower part of the distributer as- Will guide eachsorts matrix which is deli eredinto the left hand throat 25;,fi'lifi9 that on i 0f the distribilter channels za ge's 23% or 23 which corres onds with I the magazine containing matrices; Whose single metal plate character-s corr spond in stylewith the char- 4 0 a'cte'rs on the several sorts matrices:

, Located respectively below the lower endsof; these four left handdistributing channels 23 on the swinging frame are the upper matrix re eiving ends of fou-r tubes or con? ductoi's 26, which are fixed to the inner face of they left hand member of the' swir'iging' frame 1O. Preferably these foui tubes are formed channels, the; right face oft 27 which is fix'cclt'o said frame member, and the right sidejo'f sa'id channelsareall coyered by a single cover plate 28'fiXed to said channeled plate. These four tubesj'or conductors 25 are curved forward? as they godown, and their lower ends are so located that they Will severally-1 disfhargoi iii-to, or onto, the tour sortsholders 30a 30 30;, 30 Each of these's'orts' holders consists of; a narrow shlfSl, y'vhic'h extends hori'zonta'llyflto the left fioln its receiving one o'iitdwhic'h the associated tube will thischarge the sorts inatr'ices; And from its front edge thisshelf inclines downward" and j oiiiswithrthe upwardly and roatvvartlly inclined back Wall-32. ,Pr ferably these.foo

tcrtslioldcisato int-at of single piece of metal Which is connected to and extended to the right from the' inner face of the left frame memberofthe swinging; frame;-

Associated With each of these four sorts hold'ersisa packer 35. Each packer is fixed toan endwise movable horizontal bar 36 Whichgoes-through and is slidabl'y' mounted in the left frame member of the swinging frame; A rocli shaft 37 is mounted in bearings on the outer face of the left side member of the swinging frame, and it has four arms 38' Which respectively engage with the four bars 36 to which the four packers are. connected. This took shaftflikewisehais an arinBQ'eXten'ded to a position such that it maybe engaged a'ndmoi'cd' in one direction by a rot'atable fac'e' cam 4'0, and this rocli sh'a'ft will begr'ock'ed in the opposite direction by a spring 41. The particular means for rotating the cam afs shon nin the drawin consists of a lielt 492' which goes 7 from a driven pulleyilh mounted on a fi ture', to a pulley 44 mounted on" the side of the swinging frame' 'iear enough to" the axis thereof to render the mechanism operative in all positions of the sivinging frame. Another pulley 45 is fixed" to this upper pulley Mreferred tof and a belt 4'6, which goes over it,- oes likewise over! a pulley-which is liked to said cam. The rock shaft is kept constantly oscillated so that the" four packers Wi'llbe continuously vibrated from positions directly beneaththe associated tubes to the left, so'a's to permit ama triX to drop; from the tubes'onto'the sorts'li'older's, and the r to the right again to push said matrix and other matrices on the sorts holder tothe right. I I u It is clear'th'at the" matrices in said sorts holders will lie in such exposecl cond'ition as Will permit their ready Withdra'i'iial by hand, and that they Will be arranged ir'r'espective of character. I I I 7 As previously stated, the invention is shown by way of examp'le in a preferred form particularly adapted fora particular machine H wever. many modifi ations and alterations therein and in the mode of application will suggest themsel es' to those skilled in the art ithout departure from its scope, and particularly in the case of this particular exainplification ofthe invention, it is not a matter of consequence Whether thesort's holders and the tubs be placed at the right or left side ofthe swing= ing frame. 0 p

Having describedmy invention, claim:

1. In a ty ogra hical machine, the combination of a' swinging" frame' on which a plurality of matiix' magaz'ines'are supported, a plurality of s orts holders secured to" the front s'ide of said swinging frame, an equal number oflcond uctoi tubes mounted on'said swinging frame with their ran ed one behind a-nother andwith their upper ends arlower ends arranged to discharge respectively into said several sorts holders, and distributing mechanism adapted to distinguish the sorts matrices and to discharge them into the upper ends of those conductor tubes which are associated with the sorts holders in which said sorts matrices severally belong.

2. In a typographical machine, the combination of a swinging frame on which a plurality of matrix magazines are supported, a plurality of sorts holders secured to the front side of said swinging frame, an equal number of conductor tubes mounted on said swinging frame with their upper ends arranged one behind another, and with their lower ends arranged to discharge respectively into said several sorts holders, and distributing mechanism adapted to distinguish the sorts matrices and to discharge them into the upper ends of those conductor tubes which are associated with the sorts holders in which said sorts matrices severally belong, a packer located in the receiving end of each sorts holder, and mechanism carried by said swinging frame for operating said packer.

In testimony whereof, I hereunto aflix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

DAVID PETRI-PALMEDO.

Witnesses:

WALTER BUSWELL, GILBERT B. FAYETTE.

Homes of this patent was he obtained for eve cente each, by addressing the commissioner of reiterate,

Weahlnmen, 1D. W. 

